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阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A，B，C和D）中选出最佳选项。

　　Rex White knows too many seamen's stories to want to add to them. Besides, this happened on land. It happened in Lytham, a town on the River Ribble, near the place where the river flows into the Irish Sea. The shape of the trees along the Lytham beach road is proof(证明)of the great strength of the wind which comes in off the sea. It blows hard across the grass, the car parks and the open road beside the river, and there's nothing to stop it.

　　Rex was a ship's pilot. It was his job to guide ships up the river, between banks of sand, into the port of Preston. Mr White lived in a village some kilometres from the coast, so he had to drive to Lytham and leave his car in one of the car parks beside the river. Then he rowed (划船) out to the pilot boat , and waited for the particular ship that it was his duty to guide.

　　Early one morning, Mr White returned to Lytham from a night on duty, to find that he could not start his car. He had driven from his village the evening before and had left his car in the car park as usual. He had rowed out to the pilot boat and gone on board the S. S. Kilkenny, which was on her way from Ireland. Then, in the early hours of the following morning, he had returned to Lytham in the pilot boat, expecting to drive home to have a cup of hot chocolate and a warm bed. But whatever he did, he could not get the engine to start.

　　It was a cold and windy night; there was no one about, and there was no garage open to which he could turn for help. He was just about to give up and spend the rest of the night on the back seat of the car when he had a bright idea. He pushed the car round so that it was facing in the direction of the wind, opened all four doors, pushed it along a short way, and then jumped in. The doors acted like sails(帆), and in no time the wind had taken him right out of the car park, and away down the beach road. When he tried the starter switch (开关) once more, the engine roared (咆哮) to life immediately. All he had to do then was to stop the car and shut the doors.

　　He went to bed later than usual, but he didn't go without his cup of hot chocolate. Mr White was not a seaman for nothing.

1．This passage is about ________.

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A．how Mr White got his car to start on a cold and windy morning

B．what the weather was like in Lytham

C．what happened to Mr White one cold end windy night

D．how Mr White did his job and enjoyed his life

2．We can tell how strong the wind is along the beach road ________.

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A．from the way the river flows into the Irish Sea

B．by looking at the shape of the trees

C．from the fact that the open road is beside the river

D．by taking this story as a real one

3．His“bright idea”was to ________.

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A．push the car round so that it was out of the wind

B．put up sails on the car and let it go with the wind

C．open the doors and get the wind to push the car along

D．push the car a short way and then jump in

4．“Mr White was not a seaman for nothing”(in Paragraph 5) means that ________.

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A．Mr White was a seaman who was good at everything

B．Mr White had other things than a cup of chocolate for what he had done

C．Mr White was an experienced and clever seaman

D．Mr White got something for being a seaman

Answer 1

答案：A;B;C;D
解析：

1．A　　导解：全文讲述导航员Mr．White想出妙计启动自己的小汽车，C项太泛且欠准确，发动汽车并非他的工作。 　　2．B　　导解：第一段说从路边树的形状可知海上吹来的风的力量大，因此四项表述中只有B项准确。 　　3．C　　导解：第四段讲述面对困境，White灵机一动，将车推过去，打开四个车门使其起风帆的作用，最后发动了车，不难看出C是其想法的具体内容。 　　4．D　　导解：Mr．White把导航中的风扬帆推动船只理论运用到生活中解决了难题，可见作为海员他学到了一些东西。A项的everything太绝对。